On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 05:45:58 +1000, Bruce >
wrote:

>On Thu, 14 Sep 2017 15:34:07 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
>
>>On 9/13/2017 9:55 PM, Bruce wrote:
>>> On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 21:29:25 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 9/13/2017 8:41 PM, Bruce wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 17:33:36 -0700 (PDT), "
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> You are living in a dream world. I would object very loudly if I had
>>>>>> to pay up to 80% of my salary so I can provide housing to some lazy
>>>>>> character that wants everybody else to provide him a place to crash.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't know of any country in our (western) world, where people have
>>>>> to pay 80% (or 70% or 60% etc) of their salary in taxes.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Some get rather high, over 50%. Then add in taxes on goods. cost of
>>>> utilities
>>>> http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/c...the-world.html
>>>> Sweden has the second highest income tax rate in the world, and the
>>>> highest in Europe, with a 56.6% deducted from annual income. Though
>>>> Swedes may be taxed heavily, sales on residential properties are
>>>> exempted from taxation there.
>>>
>>> If you make under USD 54,500 in Sweden, you pay 31%. If you make more,
>>> you pay 51-56% over the excess. So you can't say the Swedes are paying
>>> 56.6%.
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Sweden#Income_tax>
>>>
>>> And it's also about what you get for your tax payments. Are their
>>> roads better than in the US? Is their healthcare better? Is their
>>> elderly care better? Is their crime less?
>>>
>>
>>Difficult to make true comparisons. While taxes are higher, it often
>>includes healthcare that in the US is paid for by the individual or his
>>employer. A gallon of gas in the US is about $2.50 now and in Europe it
>>is often triple due to other taxes. We have sales tax, they have VAT.
>>I don't know what they do for property tax.
>>Published tax rates mean little unless you study the whole system.
>
>I think Swedes pay more taxes but their country works better. You have
>a bigger army, though.

I wouldn't want to live there, though.